Tuesday, April 29, 2008
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MOGADISHU (AFP) - Eight people were killed in the southern Somali town of Baidoa by a
roadside bomb attack against Ethiopian troops and ensuing retaliation, witnesses
said Tuesday. Four Ethiopian soldiers on patrol in Baidoa, about 250 kilometers
northwest of the capital, Mogadishu, were killed when a roadside bomb exploded,
local residents told AFP. Ethiopian forces then combed the area for suspects in operations that residents said resulted in four civilian deaths. "After the four Ethiopian bodies were taken away, soldiers mounted a crackdown, killing three cart-pushers and another resident," resident Mohamed Ali Hassan told AFP.
Ethiopian troops came to the rescue of Somalia's embattled transitional government in late 2006 and the next year defeated an Islamist militia which had taken control of large parts of the Horn of Africa country.
Source: AFP, April 29, 2008